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OTTAWA Carolina Hurricanes Hoodies Authentic , Ontario (AP) — The Tampa Bay Lightning added another impressive milestone Monday, picking up their 60th win of the season with a 5-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators.The Lightning, who play their final three games on the road, are just the third team in NHL history to win 60 games in a season.The other teams to win at least 60 regular-season games in a season are the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens (60-8-12) and the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings (62-13-7).“Winning 60, you’ve got to give a ton of credit to those players,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “From being in the league a while now and understanding what a grind it is to play 82 with the schedule and everything and to win three out of every four and to do it all year long.“You’ve got to give those guys credit because in the end we’ve kind of been looking at the playoffs for a while and they keep bringing it so I’m really proud of the guys.”Yanni Gourde led the way with two goals and an assist. Mikhail Sergachev, Brayden Point and Steven Stamkos also scored for the Lightning (60-15-4) and Nikita Kucherov had two assists. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves.Brady Tkachuk and Max Veronneau scored for the Senators. Craig Anderson, playing in his 400th game with the Senators, stopped 21 shots.The Senators felt there were a number of lessons to be taken from playing the league’s top team.“When you look at individual guys, their top-end guys Carolina Hurricanes Hats Authentic , and you see what they do away from the puck and see how they get open and stuff like that,” Tkachuk said.“That’s what I do when I’m on the bench is try to have a look at those top-end guys if I’m not on the ice with them is try to learn from them a little bit.”Tkachuk has been impressive in his rookie season and set a franchise record for most goals by a teenager with his 21st.“He came in really wanting to prove that he was capable of playing in the league,” interim head coach Marc Crawford said. “He was ready to take on all comers. At the start of the season he impressed with how hard he forechecked and how hard he played. Where his progression has come is he’s become more of a player throughout the year.“Everything we give him, he takes and just tries to implement his own identity on to the areas that we gave him. What I like most about him is he doesn’t waste any shifts.”Trailing 3-1, the Senators made it a one-goal game as Veronneau scored his second career goal in tight on Vasilevskiy, but less than a minute later the Lightning regained their two-goal lead with Gourde scoring his second of the game on a breakaway.Gourde made the most of playing with Point and Kucherov.“It’s pretty amazing,” Gourde said. “These guys are so good. They’re so talented, they see the ice so well. They skate, they work hard. I mean there’s not much you can say about them, they’re amazing players.”Stamkos made it 5-2 with less than three minutes remaining.The Lightning jumped out to a 3-1 second-period lead after a slow start to the game.Sergachev made it 2-1 midway through the period with a shot from just inside the blueline with Anderson screened Custom Carolina Hurricanes Jerseys , while Point made it 3-1 with his 41st of the season. Gourde made a behind-the-back pass to Point, who was left all alone out front.The Lightning opened the scoring at the 12-minute mark as Kucherov saw Gourde at the side of the net and he tapped it into the open net.Ottawa tied the game late in the period as Tkachuk beat Vasilevskiy through the legs.NOTES: Ottawa’s Mark Borowiecki missed his second straight game and Mikkel Boedker was a healthy scratch for the second straight game. Tampa was without Victor Hedman, who’s dealing with an upper-body injury. Tampa recalled goalie Eddie Pasquale from AHL Syracuse. Louis Domingue is dealing with a lower-body injury.UP NEXT:Lightning: at Montreal on Tuesday night.Senators: at New York Rangers on Wednesday night. The Anaheim Ducks and Edmonton Oilers have had plenty of late-game fireworks in recent meetings.The Pacific Division rivals should be just as desperate for a win when they meet for the first time this season on Friday afternoon at Honda Center.Edmonton (10-10-1) will be playing its second game since coach Todd McLellan was fired on Tuesday and immediately replaced by Ken Hitchcock. The Oilers overcame three deficits on the road and beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 in overtime in Hitchcock’s debut on Tuesday night, their second win in eight games.Article continues below ...“I told them I would coach them hard and they really embraced that,” Hitchcock told reporters after the win. “They have a lot of fun and they’re a loud group and that’s a good thing.”The Ducks (9-9-5) will be trying to ride the momentum of their previous game as well.Anaheim defeated the visiting Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Wednesday night, just its second regulation win in the past 16 games.The Ducks have earned enough points in that stretch, while taking advantage of the downturns by other Pacific Division teams, to move into third in the division. Over the past dozen years, about 75 percent of teams holding playoff spots at Thanksgiving have gone on to qualify for the postseason.“We’re taking small steps right now,” said Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf www.officialblackhawksproshop.com , who has two points in each of the past two games. “We’re getting better and better. We’re going to continue to build and try to get this group pushing the right way every night and every shift.”Anaheim and Edmonton have appeared evenly matched the past two seasons.In seven of the past eight regular-season games between Anaheim and Edmonton, the outcome has been decided by one goal, including five that went past regulation.The Ducks also won a tight seven-game series against the Oilers in the 2017 Western Conference Quarterfinals. That series turned after the Ducks erased a 3-0 deficit in Game 5, scoring three goals in the final 3:16 with their goalie pulled for an extra attacker. The Ducks then won 4-3 in double-overtime to take a 3-2 series lead.In the third of four meetings between the teams last season, Anaheim forward Rickard Rakell scored two goals in the final 21 seconds of the third period with the goalie pulled, but Edmonton prevailed 6-5 in the shootout.In their final meeting last season, Adam Henrique scored with 1:29 left in regulation and the Anaheim net empty, tying the game 4-4. The Ducks won in overtime on a goal by defenseman Hampus Lindholm, part of a 10-1-1 finish by the Ducks that allowed them to finish second in the Pacific Division.Lindholm has missed the past two games with an upper-body injury, and Cam Fowler Chicago Blackhawks T-Shirts Authentic , the second-most seasoned defenseman for the Ducks, was struck by a puck Nov. 12 against the Nashville Predators and had surgery Friday to repair multiple facial fractures.Anaheim has had to insert two more rookie defenseman into the lineup since those injuries, Andy Welinski and Josh Mahura, who joined two other rookie defensemen already in the lineup, Marcus Pettersson and Jacob Larsson.